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Slumdog Millionaire
mbb:
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--- Quote from: RedLion on 26 Dec 2008, 20:45 ---See, that's what I've heard repeatedly. But the posters for it and the descriptions I've heard of it do not make me want to see it one iota.
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It's not a shocking, visionary storyline. It's just a straightforward movie with a straightforward plot, that gets all it's points across beautifully, through some of the coolest cinematography and best use of music in film that I've ever seen. Get over your desire to see nonlinear jerkoff cinema and just go see a good movie.
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This. And to see Freida Pinto, who is absolutely gorgeous.
I left this movie feeling very calm and satisfied. Yes, it was predictable. They told you the end before it even started. The little surprises for me were in each little side story, not in the ending.
TheFuriousWombat:
I thought this movie was a lot of fun, quite stylish, convincingly acted (for the most part) ect. ect. Yes it ended incredibly predictably, yes the shift to essentially a straight romance was a little off and good lord yes the very end was schmaltzy. That being said, it's really enjoyable, and, as I read somewhere or other, people want to see happy endings at the moment, what with non-stop war and the abyss of economic depression looming and so on. They go to the movies to forget, to have a good time, to see a nice story told well. Slumdog delivers that to be sure. It definitely isn't "jerkoff cinema." It knows what it is and that's exactly what it wants to be. I really enjoyed it the entire time and while I want to see "The Wrestler" and "Revolutionary Road" and "Doubt" and so on, I expect to leave those feeling pretty crummy. This is a lot of fun and it doesn't take itself too seriously and it's just really well made (probably because Danny Boyle is awesome. He's made not only one of the best drug movies ever and the best horror film of the decade but he's made a cool sci-fi movie and a pretty good adventure-ish type movie as well and some others I haven't seen- a good track record, that). See it! It deserved the Golden Globe and it deserves an Oscar nomination as well (I'm conflicted over whether it should win though. There are some other options that keep coming back to me).
Professor Snuggles:
--- Quote from: Tybalt on 08 Jan 2009, 23:01 ---
--- Quote from: Animal Ghosts on 08 Jan 2009, 09:05 ---If you don't like this movie you're a bad person. Real talk. Stop nitpicking and appreciate how fucking good it is you fucks.
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I sincerely hope this is satirical/ironical/not serious.
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The movie is just this fucking good. There is something dead inside of you if you can't appreciate it.
Be My Head:
The only good thing Danny Boyle ever did was Trainspotting. That was mainly because the book already ruled.
Professor Snuggles:
Nope, guess again.
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